York's fallen heroes were remembered and honoured as the city marked Remembrance Sunday in traditionally proud fashion.

The day's events began with a parade from the Eye of York by current servicemen and women from the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force as well as Cadets, Scouts and Guides.

They were led through the city centre by the Queen's Division Normandy Band as they marched to the city's memorial gardens, in Leeman Road.

They were followed by a parade of veterans from the ex-servicemen's associations who had gathered in Stonegate and who were applauded by the crowds as they marched through St Helen's Square.

The Normandy Band played Elgar's haunting Nimrod, from the Enigma Variations, as the veterans filed into the memorial gardens alongside crowds of York citizens for the service of remembrance.

York MP Hugh Bayley, Lord Mayor of York Councillor Shan Braund and City of York Council Leader Rod Hills were among the civic party which joined the service.

Despite threatening clouds, winter sunshine broke through for much of the service and not a drop of rain fell.

Deafening cannon fire marked the beginning of the Last Post which in turn signalled the start of a two minutes' silence during which only the wind through the trees and the distant hum of traffic disturbed the complete quiet.

Canon fire again rang out before the sounding of the Reveille.

Wreaths were laid at the city's Cenotaph by, among others, the Lord Mayor and representatives of the Royal British Legion, the York Ex-Servicemen's Associations, St John's Ambulance Brigade and the British Red Cross Society.

The hymn O God, Our Help In Ages Past was sung before a benediction and the Lord's Prayer were said.

After the National Anthem, the parade was formed again as the Normandy Band led a march back to the Mansion House where the salute was taken by the Lord Mayor as well as senior Army, Navy and Royal Air Force officials.